Metabolic syndrome in Xinjiang Kazakhs and construction of a risk prediction model for cardiovascular disease risk.

BACKGROUND:The high prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is observed among Kazakhs in Xinjiang. Because MetS may significantly predict the occurrence of CVD, the inclusion of CVD-related indicators in metabolic network may improve the predictive ability for a CVD...

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Main Authors: Lei Mao, Jia He, Xiang Gao, Heng Guo, Kui Wang, Xianghui Zhang, Wenwen Yang, Jingyu Zhang, Shugang Li, Yunhua Hu, Lati Mu, Yizhong Yan, Jiaolong Ma, Yusong Ding, Mei Zhang, Jiaming Liu, Rulin Ma, Shuxia Guo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6126809?pdf=render